Home

Resource List

Canada &
 Latin America


Europe

Asia

Contact Us

National DSA

Young Democratic
 Socialists


Canadian NDP

Resource List

The following list is aimed at those seeking information about socialist-oriented organizations and democratic-socialist parties around the world (sections 1, 2, 3) and at democratic socialists from around the world seeking contact with activitists in the United States (section 4). If you wish to have your organization added to this list, please email the webmaster.

DSA does not endorse the content of the sponsoring organizations of sites listed below.

1. International socialist organizations (many links to other sites with documents, statements, resources, contact addresses, campaigns, etc.)

Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide forum for socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (in English, French, Spanish)

Socialist International member, consultative, and observer parties (141) are listed here by region (many with website links):

NOTE: DSA's International Commission maintains close relations to the following sister parties:
Mexico's Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (in Spanish)

Socialist International Women, representing over 130 women's organisations affiliated with socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (in English, French, Spanish)

List of leftist political parties and organizations around the world

Party of the European Socialists (PES), established in 1957 and now an umbrella organization for 20 socialist, social-democratic, and labor parties from 15 European Union member states (in English, French, German, Spanish)

The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) includes 135 socialist, social democratic, and labor youth organisations from 100 countries (in English, Spanish, French)

International League of Religious Socialists (ILRS), representing socialists of different faiths in the world's socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (English, French, German, Spanish)

2. Information on socialism around the world

Andrew Hammer's www.socialist.org with links to media, parties, and organizations representing democratic-socialist views

Znet - A community of people committed to social change (news updates of interest to progressives and numerous links) NOTE: click on 'languages' in left-hand menu for selected translations into Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish/Kurdish, Japanese, Czech/Slovak, French, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Swedish

Jay's Left and Progressive Internet Resources Directory - Directed at anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic people who want to fight back

Medialens - A British media-watch website with a progressive perspective

Ganashakti Online - India's Marxist portal from Calcutta

3. Online Journals (a small selection of alternative and left voices on the net)

North American selections

Briarpatch - Saskatchewan's social-democratic news magazine, serving all of Canada

Canadian Dimension - independent, bi-monthly Left forum for Canada

Dissent - quarterly magazine of independent social through, politics and culture for the Left

Dollars and Sense - magazine of economic justice in the USA

In These Times - US national activists' bi-weekly published in Chicago

Labor Notes - voice of union activism in the USA

The Nation - non partisan essays on political and social questions from an American Left perspective

New Politics - focussing on the centrality of democracy to socialism and on the need to rely on mass movements from below for progressive social transformation

The Progressive - since 1909 a voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad

Z Magazine - independent, monthly left voice from the USA

Non-North American selections

Granma International - international news and analysis from Cuba (Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese versions)

Le Monde Diplomatique - France's progressive, international political monthly
English-language edition

New Left Review - Britain's bi-monthly journal of and for the international Left (with Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish print editions)

Rebelion - Internacional - Spanish-language alternative news and media coverage
Directory of progressive Spanish and Latin American online news and media sources

4. Contacts in the USA

Progressive, left, and alternative bookstores

Massline.org's Alphabetical List by City

Madison, Wisconsin: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative

Oakland, California: AK Press

San Francisco, California: Modern Times Bookstore

Public and community radio stations

The websites of some broadcasters include community calendars and canned or live programs streamed into the internet.

Pacifica Radio Foundation, with a long tradition of progressive programming, is a consortium of five independent stations located in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
Map of Eastern Pacifica affiliates
Map of Western Pacifica affiliates

Alternative Radio, produced in Boulder, Colorado, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program carried by public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and via shortwave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.

5. International labor

IWW - Industrial Workers of the World (the 'Wobblies') with sister organizations in Australia, Canada, and the British Isles

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) is an umbrella organization created in 1949 that includes now 251 affiliate organizations (in English, French, Spanish)

Global Unions

6. Other links

'Die Internationale' (2000), a 30-minute documentary film by Peter Miller, available from Icarus / First Run Films (New York City)

Rednet - portal for Communist party news and links from around the world

Anti-Fascist Network - Fighting fascism on and off the Internet

(updated July 2009)